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Under the Skin (2013 film)
Under the Skin (2013) is Jonathan Glazer's science fiction film, loosely adapted from Michel Faber's 2000 novel, starring Scarlett Johansson as an alien luring men in Scotland; shot with hidden cameras, scored by Mica Levi, premiered at Venice 2013, released 2014 via A24.
Upgrade (film)
Upgrade (2018) is a cyberpunk action-thriller written and directed by Leigh Whannell, starring Logan Marshall-Green as Grey Trace, a paralyzed widower whose AI implant STEM grants superhuman abilities for revenge; a $3 million Blumhouse film that grossed $16.7 million.
Upside Down (2012 film)
Upside Down (2012) is a French-Canadian sci-fi romance by Juan Solanas starring Jim Sturgess and Kirsten Dunst as lovers on twinned worlds with opposite gravities. Budgeted $50-60 million, it grossed about $22-26 million worldwide and earned 29% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Upstream Color
Upstream Color (2013) is Shane Carruth's experimental sci-fi follow-up to Primer, starring Amy Seimetz; a parasite links a woman, pigs, and orchids in a looping narrative that won Sundance's Sound Design award.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (Valérian et la Cité des mille planètes) is a 2017 science fiction film written and directed by Luc Besson.
Vivarium (film)
Vivarium (2019) is a sci-fi thriller by director Lorcan Finnegan and writer Garret Shanley, starring Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg as a couple trapped in Yonder, a maze of identical suburban houses, forced to raise a cuckoo-like child; Cannes Critics' Week premiere, 73% on Rotten Tomatoes.
What Happened to Monday
What Happened to Monday (2017), also released as Seven Sisters, is a Netflix dystopian sci-fi thriller directed by Tommy Wirkola, starring Noomi Rapace as septuplet sisters sharing one identity under a one-child policy, with Willem Dafoe and Glenn Close.
Womb (film)
Womb (2010), also released as Clone, is a German-Hungarian-French sci-fi drama by Benedek Fliegauf starring Eva Green and Matt Smith, about a woman who bears and raises a clone of her dead lover.
Z for Zachariah (film)
Z for Zachariah (2015) is a post-apocalyptic drama directed by Craig Zobel, written by Nissar Modi, starring Margot Robbie, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Chris Pine, adapted from Robert C. O'Brien's 1974 novel; Caleb was invented for the film.
Zoe (film)
Zoe (2018) is a sci-fi romance directed by Drake Doremus, starring Léa Seydoux and Ewan McGregor as lab colleagues; Zoe learns she is a synthetic. Premiered at Tribeca April 21, 2018; Metascore 39, RT 35%, gross $401,912. Distinct from the 2025 Italian film and the 2018 Swiss film of the same name.